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Friday, May 29, 2009

Friday Rock Out : The Pogues - Fiesta

While Bastian and Blair regale one another with tales of how awesome the Dropkick Murphys are, we'll kick off our weekend tearing it up to Shane MacGowan and the boys. The Dropkicks couldn't carry Shane's toothbrush.

(And the whole Dropkicks association with the worst elements of the Masshole Nation and Papelbon's spastic self-aggrandizing jigs just makes them that much less palatable. Especially this weekend.)

Drink up, sailors...the weekend is here! The Ack is back, if he hasn't lost himself in the pity drinks already.

What happens in Vegas gets reported in VegasThe Las Vegas Sun's Ryan Greene had an excellent piece in yesterday's edition on Brett Cecil and his impressions of his first shot at the big leagues. Of course, no interview with a young Jays pitcher would be complete without the requisite tale of how Roy Halladay showed them the way and the light.

Specifically, Halladay told Cecil how to deal with Boston Red Sox pompous runt Dustin Pedroia. (It's just a shame that Halladay hasn't had the opportunity to put that knowledge to better use himself yet this year.)

Well, you've obviously never listened to it whilst dancing around a smoky apartment without air conditioning when it's 38 degrees outside (and about 48 degrees inside) and you're drunk with your best buddies after watching the Jays-Red Sox game when half of said buddies are BoSox fans.

Roll over Elvis, let the Honky Tonk Man show you how to rock n' rollElvis Who? He wouldn't get a tune if it had handles on it.Ooooooh, have mercy, babyLet the Honky Tonk Man pick that guitarIt's Honky Tonk Mania runnin' wildI got Peggy Sue behind meThe colonel's in the backI'm gonna do your town in my pink cadillacI'm just a Honky Tonk Man (he's a Honky Tonk Man)I'm just a Honky Tonk Man (he's a Honky Tonk Man)I'm just a Honky Tonk ManI'm cool, I'm cocky, I'm bad

Hmm... for the Pogues I'd probably gone with Bottle of Smoke kinda fits with the drinking theme for the weekend and (hopefully) victory for the Jays. I don't think the odds against the Jays are twenty-fucking-five to one though.

I think you nailed it with your assessment of the Dropkick Murphys, Tao. There's this ugly sentiment in pop culture that's difficult to pinpoint, but there's this notion that 5th and 6th generation Irish should get drunk and act like complete hooligans. Meanwhile, the Republic of Ireland has built a nice little knowledge-based economy and they seem to want to distance themselves from the image of down-on-their-luck criminal micks that the Dungheap Murphys celebrate.

@ DP, have you ever been to the Rep of Ireland? Trust me mate, you'll find plenty o beer swilling rubes there even still! The idea of a Mediterrean diet AND drinking culture is quite foreign to them to this very day. The drinking had gotten so bad that two years ago the government had an initiative to combat drunkenness and acoholism under Bertie Ahern...I kid you not!